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Dwyane Wade joins GQ to reveal his 10 Essentials. The 3x NBA champion breaks down his daily essentials: from his chain (“it’s rare you’ll see me without a chain on”) to his sunglasses (“it completes the outfit”). Watch the full episode of GQ’s 10 Essentials, as Dwyane Wade reveals 10 things he can’t live without.Credits:Director: Graham CorriganDirector of Photography: Brad WickhamEditor: Graham MooneyTalent: Dwyane WadeSenior Producer: Michael BeckertTalent Booker: Ernesto MaciasCamera Operator: Carlos AraujoSound Mixer: Sean PaulsenProduction Assistant: Caleb Clark, Karla TorresPost Production Supervisor: Jess DunnSupervising Editor: Rob LombardiAssistant Editor: Justin Symonds
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00:00What's up, GQ?
00:01I'm Duane Wade, and here, I'm our tennis entrance.
00:13My chains.
00:14It's very rare you will see me without a chain on.
00:17If you do, that means I'm waiting for my next chain to come in.
00:20It's a part of me just growing up watching my dad and my uncles.
00:24It's so versatile.
00:25Like, it looks good when you're working out.
00:27It looks good when you're dressed up.
00:28Once you put your rings on, and then you put your chain on,
00:31it just adds something to the outfit,
00:34which adds something about your personality as well.
00:36And so, my chains.
00:42This essential right here is my journal.
00:44And I have plenty of journals.
00:45It's one of the things that a lot of people gets me now.
00:47I don't just get ties anymore, now I get journals.
00:50Probably one of my favorite journal times in my life so far
00:53is the day after I had my kidney surgery.
00:57Only thing I could do for the first week is journal.
01:00I couldn't really move around that much.
01:02I wasn't around a lot of people.
01:03And so, my journal was my friend.
01:04My journal was where I can talk to about my journey back.
01:08The days, and the moments of weakness, and the moments of vulnerability,
01:11and then the moments of strength.
01:13And so now, I go back and I read that moment.
01:15I go back and I've read it to my daughter, and sometimes I get up in the morning
01:19and just like, what are my thoughts right away?
01:21I'm a visionary.
01:21I'm someone who I like to think forward, and I think if you write it down,
01:25it allows you to be able to actually go out and then put a plan together
01:30to be able to do the things you need to do.
01:31If I want to start my own podcast, if I want to start my own digital show,
01:34what are the essentials of doing that?
01:36Who are the people that can help me accomplish those things?
01:39So, I think it's very important for you to have a checklist for yourself.
01:43And my journal is my checklist.
01:50This is Central.
01:51It was obviously a laptop.
01:52I just started recently traveling with this as I've started my own podcast,
01:56digital show, and my own network.
01:57But it's important to tap in.
01:59I can get on with DeWright, and Chris, and Bob, and we can do our show.
02:02You know, the pandemic showed all of us that we can connect with anywhere from around the world.
02:05We can get business done.
02:07Some days we have a lot of meetings set up, and, you know, this is where I can just pull this out
02:11anywhere I go, and, you know, hop on, and I can get to it.
02:20When I spray, like, it's the freshness, you know, of it for me.
02:25Like, I want to smell like I just came out of the shower, like I'm freshly clean.
02:30So, this is Central.
02:31It is from Estee Lauder.
02:33It's called Intuition by Aramis.
02:36I was lucky enough to be nabbed as one of the faces of the Intuition.
02:41This was Estee Lauder's first fragrance, and now this is the relaunch.
02:45I always wanted to be one of them guys on a billboard around the world with his own fragrance.
02:48Every day of my life, I put fragrance on.
02:50It doesn't matter if I'm going to yoga, I'm going to the gym,
02:53if I'm going downstairs, obviously going to red carpet events.
02:57No matter what I'm doing, every day of my life, you know, I make sure I walk away,
03:01and I have a certain scent.
03:02So, for me, it's to hit that wrist first, you know, and then to smell it.
03:06Then after I smell it, then after that, I hit my spots.
03:09And one of my main spots is back here in the back of the neck.
03:11If somebody hug me, I want them to get a little sniff in the back.
03:15You want a fragrance that, you know, puts you in a place.
03:18You ever hug somebody or walk by somebody, and it just took you back to a moment in your life,
03:22just by smelling a certain scent?
03:23It's very important for me.
03:25When I walk in a room, you know, people know it's me.
03:33This is old-school, just all-black, beat-up do-rag.
03:38You see it right here.
03:39It's messed up.
03:40This is culture.
03:41This is power.
03:42I grew up watching my father put his sporting wave on,
03:45brush his hair, trying to get waves.
03:47The way he responded once he took that do-rag off.
03:50Traveling a lot through the NBA,
03:51you don't get a chance to always get haircuts.
03:54You got big TV games.
03:55You got big moments.
03:56You want to make sure your hair is right.
03:57Making sure you have your do-rag.
03:59It just lays your hair down.
04:00If you got a fresh cut like I have right now,
04:02and I want to keep this cut,
04:03I can't put my head on that pillow.
04:04I got to put that do-rag on first.
04:05You know, it's become a part of fashion, in a sense.
04:07But, you know, this is something that we've always worn.
04:10It's just passed down.
04:11You know, you see your grandfather, your father, your uncles.
04:14You see everybody wearing a do-rag because this is a part of our, you know, our culture.
04:17This is like original.
04:19This is that old polyester right here.
04:21And we want to make it fashionable.
04:22So now they got them with the velvet look on them.
04:24When I grew up, you had a black do-rag only.
04:27We didn't have a lot of flavors.
04:28Now you got flavors.
04:29Now you got reds.
04:30You got whites.
04:30You got all these different colors.
04:31But this is the OG.
04:39This is very, very important.
04:41In my travels, I always make sure that I have
04:43a nice pair of sunglasses to take with me.
04:46I wear a lot of hats when I travel.
04:48And so you got to have the right sunglasses to fit with the hats.
04:51For me, it's all about the weight of the sunglasses.
04:53It's obviously the look.
04:55Sometimes I want to black out sunglasses so no one can see my eyes.
04:57It completes the outfit.
04:59This is at the very end.
05:00Once you're ready, you put your sunglasses on.
05:02And you go into a whole different mode.
05:04You're like, I'm ready.
05:05And that's when you go.
05:06This is just a staple.
05:07I have a million pair of sunglasses.
05:08I have a whole room where I have drawers of sunglasses.
05:11When you find that favorite pair, I wear them out.
05:13You'll see me wear the same ones from months on in.
05:16Because once I find that one that hit me the right way,
05:19you're going to see me everywhere with them.
05:26This is my lip treatment right here.
05:28My lip balm.
05:28It's very important.
05:29I do not want to have dry lips.
05:31Especially playing basketball.
05:33You know, you go over the sideline.
05:33If I go to Denver and that altitude is crazy,
05:36I go to the sideline like, please give me my lip balm.
05:38Lotion, hand lotion.
05:39I can't sleep if my hands are dry.
05:41Nail clippers.
05:42Really important as well.
05:43Toenail clippers as well, guys.
05:45No one wants you getting in bed with sharp toenails.
05:48Also, too, for my fingernails.
05:49I put polish on my nails as well.
05:52And sometimes it grows out.
05:53So I got to clip them.
05:54Make sure they stay fresh when I'm on the road.
05:56And last but not least, floss sticks.
05:58I don't want to be that guy that's at the restaurant
06:00putting his whole fist in his mouth.
06:02Because I would do it.
06:03And once I've discovered these floss sticks
06:05and how easy they travel,
06:06I'm quick to make sure I hand them out to people.
06:08You know, if I do something at my home,
06:09it's a bowl of floss sticks that goes around to everyone.
06:11And I'm hitting them.
06:20Yeah, buddy.
06:21These essentials right here have become very important.
06:24I think anytime that you can give yourself
06:26an opportunity to be one percent better,
06:27you want to do that.
06:28Getting a chance to understand, you know,
06:30what supplements can do for you has been very,
06:33very important for me.
06:34And so this has become a part of my daily vitamins.
06:37It's every morning, you know, once I get up,
06:39when I'm at home and I work out,
06:41I make sure that I have my shakes and my daily greens
06:43are a part of that.
06:44Daily electrolytes, being an athlete,
06:46it's important to, you know, hydrate.
06:48Just throw it in my water bottle, shake it up,
06:50and kind of get some flavor.
06:51Rehydrate and recover and replenish it.
06:53It's very, very important.
06:54I do a lot of working out.
06:56I do a lot of yoga.
06:57I do a lot of saunas.
06:58And so I'm losing so much and I have to replace.
07:01And so the electrolytes has become very, very important.
07:10Picking up a camera will make you have to really focus.
07:13The camera has become very important to do that.
07:15You know, I can obviously take it on my phone,
07:17which is great, but I feel like this right here,
07:19it puts you in a different mode.
07:20It makes you want to be adventurous.
07:22Especially when I travel around the world,
07:24I make sure I pack my cameras with me.
07:25A couple of years ago, I did my first show
07:29at Art Basel in Miami called Vierate
07:31with my partner Bob Metellus.
07:32And we both were traveling around the world.
07:34I was shooting in black and white.
07:35I was going to Asia.
07:37I was going to Africa.
07:38I have some great photos that I took
07:41of just people doing things, of mountains, of sunsets.
07:43I got so many sunsets.
07:45And so these become my eyes when, you know,
07:47when I want to look up and I want to see the beauty
07:49that this world has to offer.
07:55The AirPods, very important essential.
07:59It's important for conversations.
08:01It's important for music.
08:02When I'm on a plane, I listen to a lot of music.
08:04I have meditation apps on my phone.
08:07I listen to a lot of meditations.
08:08When I'm in the sauna, when I'm in the gym,
08:10I'm traveling.
08:12When you put your earphones in,
08:13it's kind of like it's a block.
08:14It's a barrier.
08:15It kind of allows you to be in your own zone
08:18and not focus on the outer world
08:20and what's going on all the time.
08:21Every now and again, my kids will send me a new artist
08:24or a new song, put my AirPods in and I listen to it.
08:27But, you know, I'm someone who, you know,
08:28Jay-Z drop an album, I'm listening to it.
08:31If Jeezy drop an album, I'm listening to it.
08:33If Wayne drop an album, I'm listening to it.
08:35But I'm also listening to, you know,
08:37the music that my parents listened to.
08:38I'm listening to the music of the 90s,
08:40of the early 2000s, my era.
08:42These things that, just like Fragrance,
08:44that puts me right back into certain moments in my life.
08:47I think it's very important to continue to move forward,
08:50but I also think it's very important not to forget where you come from.
08:53I'm Dewyane Wade.
08:54Those are my essentials.
08:56Those are the things I need to make me whole.
08:58GQ, thanks for this journey.
09:00Thanks for walking me down this path of sharing my essentials with everyone.
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